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Nesting Cameras in After Effects Using Expressions

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Chris Kelley will show you how to nest cameras inside Adobe After Effects and update them automatically using expressions.
After Effects CS3
Camera
Video-/Tutorials

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If you don't use activeCamera and instead write your expressions with hard-coded layer names, you're bound to break your expression somewhere down the line. This video will show you how and why to use activeCamera when nesting AE cameras into precomps.
from http://themographblog.com
Just pickwhip the respective nested comp camera values to your outer comp camera values.
e.g.
comp("Main").activeCamera.pointOfInterest
comp("Main").activeCamera.position
comp("Main").activeCamera.orientation


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Camera, activeCamera

(Min. Version: After Effects CS3, Category: Camera, Type: Video-/Tutorials)
posted by MicGyver on Oct 20, 2009

 

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